Meanwhile, Melinda Tankard Reist and Collective Shout have been calling on the Immigration Department to revoke the visa of Tyler the Creator, an American rapper who is performing in Australia at the moment.

At the age of eighteen I had dropped out of high school and was serving time in a maximum-security prison for robbing three banks. In the decade after my release, my life resembled the American dream as I graduated from college, began doctoral studies and enjoyed an active dating life. But I only loved myself, and the promise of happiness waned with each passing year. Then in 2007, Christ called me out of the world through a series of supernatural experiences. This is my conversion story.

Chilean Jesuit Felipe Berríos, who left Chile three years ago to do missionary work in Africa, is back in the news again following a controversial interview the priest gave to TVN's "El Informante". The former chaplain of Un Techo para Chile's blistering attack on the institutional Church in his country left the social media buzzing and his superior, Fr. Eugenio Valenzuela, bending over backwards to apologizeto the Archbishop of Santiago and President of the Chilean Bishops' Conference, Msgr. Ricardo Ezzati.

Msgr. Ezzati simply responded by "blessing" Fr. Berrios and his work in Africa, while a spokesman for the Bishops' Conference offered a harsher assessment, characterizing Berrios' remarks as a "caricature" of the Church and a harmful one at that. Msgr. Juan Ignacio González, the bishop of San Bernardo, went further, saying of Fr. Berrios that "it hurts me to hear him speak in such a disrespectful manner. It demonstrates what we already know about Father Berrios' opinions -- exaggerated, tone deaf, with words that are often hurtful and produce no positive effect at all."

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Finally, Guy Sebastian and Paulin's song for Sydney's World Youth Day 2008 is still winning awards.

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